good prize! seems a bit over-the-top, but good sponsors eh! :D
 
more practice, taking more pictures yesterday. again, just a lot of the same. weather was a bit overcast, so not as pretty as everything could be (sunrise/sunset) but i used that spot i was at the other day.







over 8 thousand! haha




gave everything in here a good scrub-up yesterday too... it had been a while..!




quick release still going strong...



seriously love how much the rotors fill out these wheels. :P
 
that's all.

yo drift king! seen this car around... its epic.

That's so awesome 3 cars with the same colour for a cruise. The AW11s are like twins :) and that MX-5 looks quite the contender!
Those Rotas look really light.
Very unfortunate to hear about the crash but the most important thing is you still breathing, I hope the others are okay too.

one month on...


foot/leg/anke combo is still pretty sad..




but as it turns out, so is little red.

Late November i took it off to the mechanic to get sorted. since i dont need the car until february, progress is slow.. but its getting fixed.

- a compression check showed it was baaadly down on one cylinder.
- head pulled off, showed no damage. HG fine, etc..
- intake manifold strip down revealed a busted TVIS plate. two cylinders were always open, while the other two worked. explains the painful down-low power in the last few weeks of driving.
- motor continues to be pulled down.
- bam. two of my 42,000km old, genuine smallport toyota pistons are cracked in the piston ringland. urgh...

New pistons have been ordered, got a replacement TVIS, and it's all going back together. The new pistons are hypatec smallport pistons. still cast, but supposedly better and worth a shot.

This time it will be going on the dyno, to check it all out a bit better. Need to make sure its not having some sort of fuel supply issue. its all hard.. its just so damn old. :(

annoying having to rebuild it twice in two years, but ehh... i just want it running for when i can drive again. looking forward to this soso much.. :'(
 
oooootherthanthat... unposted picture set from august, to freshen up this page... :)







 
 
Lil red hasnt had any new **** bought for it for a few months.. because i've pre-occupied myself with a new toy. :D
I'd never imported a car before, so it was an interesting process. learned alot.
browsed the SEVS list, decided to go for an EVO 5, and then got searching. it was probably 2 months of trawling the auctions before this one came up. 50-60,000 cars go up for auction every week in Japan... of which 5-6 may be Evo 5's.
long story short, here it is. complied but unregistered:












i still cant believe these are so cheap! A proper Group-A Homologation Rally car.. and a successful one at that! the Evo 5 won the WRC in 1998 (the evo 5 was only produced for this one year - awesome), winning 7 of 13 rounds, including Australia. :P
it has an adjustable aluminium wing, aluminium bonnet and (wide!) guards, brake ducts, tacked on rear flares, big front mount air and oil coolers.. with water spray.. etc etc.. so geekily rad. :P
 
this one in particular seemed extra nice.
original books, tons of paperwork, and absolutely covered in quality parts. was a grade 4C car, and looks very smart. :)
 
 
 

Looking great, you have an insane eye for detail, the evo looks fricken sinister!! What are your plans for it? 

^ i mentioned it in a post somewhere on this page, but i was a passenger in a bad car accident over 4.5 months ago. 8 broken bones in the foot/ankle area was the reason for the cast..
still not driving.
 
As for the fueling, that's pretty much my worry. It feels like a bandaid, hiding a bigger Issue.
once the engine is run in - 1000km or thereabouts - in late april sometime, ill get it serviced, then go for a dyno run (and get someone else's opinion). I worry about AFR's nowadays, and want to be able to confidently give it tons of revs without the same thing happening.
 

Benji_AW11
Looking great, you have an insane eye for detail, the evo looks fricken sinister!! What are your plans for it? 

 
thanks!
no real plan for the Evorution - just gradually cleaning it up. I enjoy looking at it, and fiddling with it.. so no real rush to drive it. I still love driving the AW11 too much to care, and cant imagine its any better to drive. its just faster. :S
I'm still on my P's until December this year, so cant legally drive the fkn thing anyway. its a Ridiculous 3point fine nowadays, even though im well-and-truly OLD enough to drive it, i guess I'm still not mature enough in Vicroads eyes. Feels like I've been on my P's longer than anyone this side of bendigo.. <_<

Loving the EVO. Bringing red to HH?